Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-04-14

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Justice OF the Supreme Court of the
District Of Columbia. He is Il resident
Of Lansing, Michigan.
Father c. T. OLeary, of St. Louis,
warm defeD der OF the Knights of
Labor, has declared war on Arch
bishop Kenrick for being virtually ex-
cludcd from the diocese.
Cholera having reached The IsthmNs
of Panama, the authorities OF EA
Paso, Texas, have instituted strict
quarantine against passengers or
freight from infected ports.
Peter Schumacher, an insane yete-
ran of the 4th Wisconsin Cavalry. has
been allowed a pension Of So per
month. The first payment, 81, 800,
will be made at Milwaukee.
John Pepper, postmaster at B0sco-
bel, Wisconsin, has been arrested for
misappropriating 500 Of Government
funds. He is cripple, and was ap-
pointed through sympathy.
An artesian we'll was sunk by the
Gulf railway in its yard at Galveston
and has struck fresh water at q depth
of 765 feet. There has never been an
ordinary we'll on the island.
The people of Dubuque, to the NUM-
Der of ten thousand. gathered on Sun
day to witness the laying of the cor
ner-stone or the Sacred Heart Catho-
lie church, which is TO cost $40, 600.
Rev. J. R. Kendall, of Mason City,
Iowa, was paralyzed on Sunday at the
close of his sermon. Judge J. Y.
Eustace, of Dixon, Illinois, is rapidly
recovering from a similar attack.
At Paterson, New Jersey, on Sunday
evening, torpedoes were placed on the
horserailway tracks at the corner Of
Market and Main streets The eX-
plosion shattered the trucks Of a car.
w. S. Stokley, the director of public
safety, appointed by the mayor of
Philadelphia, has notified the police
lleutenants to enforce the laws against
gambling, prize-f1ghting, and Sunday
llquor-selling.
General J. J. NEcNulta, of Bloom
ington, Illinois, has been appointed
receiver of the Wabash railway, in
bond of $1,000 S. r. Galloway, Of
the Union Pacific, was unable to ac-
cept the position.
4 cablegrem from Paris states that
German agents are making domlcll-
larry visits in the Reichland, and that
orders have been given for the de-
struction Of French flags preserved i'll
Cu0 PROVINCIAL H11IIfSS.
The supreme court at Washington,
in the cases brought by the national
banks OF New York against the re-
ceiver of taxes, has decided in favor
of the latter. Taxes to the amount Of
S., 900, 600 are involved.
Governor Lee, Of Virginia. having
received adviceS from London that
commission OF bOndhOlders is about to
W. D oh hoe
Joint committee to confer with it on
the state debt question.
The development of natural gas at
Marion, Indiana, has put valuation
of S75 to 5000 per acre on all lands
transfers within ten days have
amounted to 100000.
a federal judge at Richmond has
released William L. Royal, who had
been convicted in a state court Of
bringing damage suits against mem
bers of a grand jury which had in
dicted him for barratry.
The interstate commerce commits
sion has ordered that applications for
official action shall be made by petition
under oath. The Mobile and Ohio
road has asked relief as to rates be-
cause Of water competition.
An officer Of the Salvation army has
been brought into court at Charlotte,
North Carolina, for endeavoring to
induce q handsome heireSS to renouncs
home and friends, marry captain,
and devote herself to the army.
The Interstate commerce commits
sion, after listening to the appeals Of
various Southern railways, has sus-
pended i'll that section, for period of
ninety days, the operation of the long
and short haul section Of the law.
A man giving the name of Doyle
was arrested at Chattanooga for re-
fusing to pay for supper in restau-
rant. After his discharge he showed
the police $4,000 in currency, which
had been concealed in his clothing.
William Cunningham, burglar,
when arraigned for sentence in a New
York court, cursed Judge Moore and
started to attack him. causing the
jurors to leave their box. He was
sentenced to ten years at Sing Sing.
Arthur Terry has been brought back
from New Orleans to Aurora, Illinois,
to answer the charge Of poisoning his
wife. The cOrOner'S jury returned a
verdict recommending that he be held
for the crime, and he was placed in
jail at Geneva
The magnificent Hotel de Monte,
erected at Monterey by the Southern
Pacific company at a cost of $3.50, 600,
was totally destroyed by fire during
Friday night. Three hundred guests
were rescued. but most Of them lost
their effects.
At Mount Sterling, Kentucky, be-
fore daylight, on Monday, J. J. Cor
Madison was arrested and placed in
Jail to serve three years for horse
whipping Judge Reid, who soon after
ward committed suicide because of his
sense of disgrace.
The Chicago and Eastern Illinois
road, 139 miles in length has been
purchased by a syndicate headed by
II. III. Porter. in the interest of the
Chicago and Indiana Coal road. The
new board of directors elected Richard
NJ. Hoe, president.
Arthur Terry. of Aurora. Illinois,
who is suspected Of poisoning his wife
and attempting the lives of his parents
and children, was recently arrested at
New Orleans, on applying for money
sent him by his father, and will be
brought back for trial.
Herman Schultzer, residing at No.